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Kathy McCabe, Founder, Editor and Publisher
Kathy McCabe is the founder, editor and publisher of the subscription
travel newsletter, Dream of Italy, The
Insider's Guide to Undiscovered Italy.
The seven-year-old newsletter was awarded "Best Consumer Subscription
Newsletter 2007" and has been recommended by USA TODAY, National
Geographic Traveler, U.S News & World Report
and BusinessWeek, among others. Through her newsletter and
media appearances, this Italian travel expert has helped thousands of
travelers experience authentic Italy. Must recently she has taken to
giving Italy travel advice via
Twitter and has been named a top
travel Tweeter by several publications.
McCabe's first-hand Italy reporting has included assisting in
the production of buffalo mozzarella in Campania, partaking in truffle
hunts in Piedmont and Umbria, soaking in magical hot springs in
Tuscany, watching open-air opera in Verona, visiting ancient caves in
Basilicata and reviewing
Italy's newest restaurants and hotels.
She commented on the travel and culture aspects of the 2006 Winter
Olympic Games in Torino for USA TODAY, Peter Greenberg's Travel Today,
Travel Hub Radio and ABC NEWS' World News This Morning.
McCabe is a regular guest on the How to Tour Italy radio
show and recently appeared on The Travel Show with
Steve Perillo.
McCabe is a speaker and consultant on travel and publishing and
specializes in developing travel content for new media. She has spoken
at The
New York Times Travel Show
and this fall she will be speaking at the Smithsonian Museum in
Washington, DC and the Mequoda Summit (a publishing conference) in
Boston. She has consulted with private clients on launching new travel
Web sites, implementing e-mail marketing and using social media such as
Twitter.
As a travel writer, McCabe has written about everything from taking her
dog to luxury hotels to choosing a Caribbean cruise. She currently is a
regular contributor to AOL Travel. Her articles have appeared in USA TODAY, Saveur,
Washingtonian, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Global Traveler,
The Travel Channel Online, Fodor's Travel Publications, The Dallas Morning News,
The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Herald
and Rudy
Maxa's Traveler. She has also
written for Ladies' Home Journal and
Pages.
McCabe began her career in journalism at ABC News where she was part of
an Emmy-Award winning investigative team linking money and politics
during the 1996 presidential election. She holds a M.A. in non-fiction
writing from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S.F.S. in European
Studies from Georgetown University. She is a graduate of the Stanford
University Publishing Program for Mid-Career Professionals.
McCabe, an avid dog lover, has a rescued Wire Fox Terrier named Cooper.
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